Modern Russian identity and historical experience has been largely shaped by Russia's imperial past: an empire that was founded in the early modern era and endures in large part today. The Russian Empire 1450-1801 surveys how the areas that made up the empire were conquered and how they were governed. It considers the Russian empire a 'Eurasian empire', characterized by a 'poli...(展开全部)

This ambitious book explores the role of empire in world history. What does it mean to be an empire? How does one empire differ from another? Why does an empire rise and why fall? Why have empires flourished in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? On an unusally wide canvas, Dominic Lieven addresses all these questions. His central focus is on the rise and...(展开全部)

Dominic Lieven, a former Kennedy scholar at Harvard University, is professor of Russian government at the London School of Economics. Among his many publications are the highly praised Nicholas II and Russia’s Rulers under the Old Regime, published by Yale University Press.

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

How does one empire differ from another? Why do empires rise and fall? What has made empires flourish in some eras and regions of the world but not in others? In this broad and ambitious book, Dominic Lieven explores the place and meaning of empire from ancient Rome to the present. The central focus of the book is Russia and the rise and fall of the Tsarist and the Soviet Empir...(展开全部)

In the late nineteenth century, as a consequence of imperial conquest and a mobility revolution, Russia became a crossroads of the hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca. The first book in any language on the hajj under tsarist and Soviet rule, Russian Hajj tells the story of how tsarist officials struggled to control and co-opt Russia's mass hajj traffic, seeing it not on...(展开全部)

Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia has been marginalized at the edge of a Western-dominated political and economic system. In recent years, however, leading Russian figures, including former president Vladimir Putin, have begun to stress a geopolitics that puts Russia at the center of a number of axes: European-Asian, Christian-Muslim-Buddhist, Mediterranean-Indi...(展开全部)

Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals, and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian Seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Sla...(展开全部)

别尔嘉耶夫（1874-1948），具有世界影响的俄罗斯宗教哲学家，思想涉及哲学、宗教、文学、政治、人类学和伦理学等领域，被誉为“二十世纪的黑格尔”，“现代最伟大的哲学家和预言家之一”， 俄国给予世界思想界的“第四件礼物”。著述等身，《自由的哲学》、《历史的意义》、《创造的意义》、《人的使命》、《人的奴役与自由》、《俄罗斯思想》等都是其重要著作；以陀思妥耶夫斯基为主要思想源泉，创造了“自由基督教”哲学。1922年被苏俄当局驱逐，先到柏林，后定居巴黎近郊的克拉玛尔，死后葬于克拉玛尔公墓。

别尔嘉耶夫（1874-1948），具有世界影响的俄罗斯宗教哲学家，思想涉及哲学、宗教、文学、政治、人类学和伦理学等领域，被誉为“二十世纪的黑格尔”，“现代最伟大的哲学家和预言家之一”， 俄国给予世界思想界的“第四件礼物”。著述等身，《自由的哲学》、《历史的意义》、《创造的意义》、《人的使命》、《人的奴役与自由》、《俄罗斯思想》等都是其重要著作；以陀思妥耶夫斯基为主要思想源泉，创造了“自由基督教”哲学。1922年被苏俄当局驱逐，先到柏林，后定居巴黎近郊的克拉玛尔，死后葬于克拉玛尔公墓。